Thinking Ziad Matni is going to answer your questions is like thinking an ASU sorority girl likes you. He would never fully answer my questions, lie about academic help here. TAs were horrific and honestly were not proficient in English. Labs and homework took ten+ hours a week to take.

Professor Matni made me actually want to come to class. Very enjoyable course. The way he structured it was very forgiving and low-stress for me as a student. Quizzes every other week just as a learning check, lowest one gets dropped. Pretty easy if you show up to class. Final was fair. No midterms. He's a very funny guy.

Great lectures, very obvious that Professor Matni cares about his students' learning and the subject itself. He teaches with both slideshows and code demonstrations, so the lectures aren't hard to understand.

Took CS16 fall quarter as a CE major, he's the GOAT! Super engaging and helpful lecturer, really explains concepts well. Work diligently on the labs (that really aren't that hard!), because being fuzzy on these basic concepts will hurt you in the future. Definitely attend all the lectures that you can.

Awesome prof. Definitely would recommend this course. Very engaging lectures that were very helpful for the quizzes/final. Only semi-difficult part were the short 15 minute quizzes, but if you prepare a small amount, you should be fine. He does drop lowest hw, quiz, and lab grade which is a plus. The final is pretty straightforward.

Very engaging lecturer and made the class material easy to digest with jokes and lots of examples/demos. I read the textbook but it was definitely not necessary, as he covered the material well in class. The quizzes were pretty basic, I only significantly studied for the final, which was very reasonable.